Rising Stars of Research and its sponsoring organizations congratulate all participants for an outstanding poster session! Special kudos go to our award winners:
Discovery Division
(Life Sciences & Psychology, Natural Resources & the Environment, Computational Sciences & Technology, Physical & Earth Sciences)
- FIRST prize: Gareth Hopkins (University of Northern British Columbia), Poster Title: Temptations of Weevil: Feeding and Ovipositional Preferences of Hylobius Warreni Wood on Bark in Laboratory Bioassays
- SECOND prize: Joshua Amiel (Dalhousie University), Poster Title: Physiological and Behavioural Adaptations of the Eastern Ribbonsnake to Cold Climates
- THIRD prize: Lyndsey Baillie (Dalhousie University), Poster Title: Genetic Structure of Trinidadian Guppy Populations
- Honourable Mentions:
- Scott Culligan (University of New Brunswick), Poster Title: Novel Lithium-Transition Metal-Nitride Systems for Reversable Hydrogen Storage
- Dorian Gangloff (The University of British Columbia), Poster Title: Information Transmission in Models of Synapses Exhibiting Stochastic for Short-Term Plasticity
- Emma MacDonald (St. Francis Xavier University), Poster Title: Relations Between Gender and Threat-Expectancy on Implicit Cognitions and Response to Acute Pain
- Michael Yee (University of Toronto), Poster Title: Magnetic Transport of Fermionic Potassium in an Optical Lattice Experiment
- Qian Zhu (University of Ottawa), Poster Title: Generalized Gene Adjacencies, Graph Bandwidth and Clusters in Yeast Evolution
FINDER Division
(Health Sciences, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
- FIRST prize: Eric Asava-Aree (The University of British Columbia), Poster Title: The Contribution of T-cells to Intestinal Inflamation and Fibrosis
- SECOND prize: Sandeep Koshy (University of Waterloo), Poster Title: Tropism and Kinetics of VSV Infection
- THIRD prize: Bretta Russell-Schulz (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Poster Title: Deuterium NMR of N-Terminal SP-B
- Honourable Mentions:
- Eunice Kim (University of Northern British Columbia), Poster Title: Endoribonuclease Activity of Human APE1 Revealed by a Real-Time Fluorometric Assay
- Steven McArthur (Simon Fraser University), Poster Title: Targeting Viral Proteases for Anti-viral Chemotherapy: Discovery of a Novel Class of Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus NS3/NS4A Heterocomplex Serine Protease
- Ayodele Odutayo (University of Western Ontario), Poster Title: Understanding the Mechanisms for Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Women with a History of Severe Pre-eclampsia
- Rebecca Ronsley (McGill University), Poster Title: Increased Prevalence of Obesity and Glucose Intolerance in Youth Treated with Second-generation Anti-psychotics
